«Маy the grace of the Lord be with you!» Letters of the Martyr Metropolitan Cyril (Smirnov) the Confessor Iraida (Tikhovа), 1934–1937

• Main Author: Vorob'ev Vladimir, archpriest
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: St. Tikhon's Orthodox University 2015-04-01
• Series: Vestnik Pravoslavnogo Svâto-Tihonovskogo Gumanitarnogo Universiteta: Seriâ II. Istoriâ, Istoriâ Russkoj Pravoslavnoj Cerkvi
• Subjects: The Russian Orthodox Church; the persecution against the Church; the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia; the “right” Church opposition; the epistolary heritage.
• Online Access: http://periodical.pstgu.ru/en/pdf/article/2879
• ISSN: 1991-6434; 2409-4811

For the first time ever the letters of the first locum tenens of the patriarchal throne, the Hieromartyr Metropolitan Cyril (Smirnov), written in the last years of his life, to the Confessor Iraida Tikhova are published on the base of the handwritten originals from the archive fund of the Hieromartyr Archbishop Seraphim (Samoilovich), stored in the Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University of Humanities.